Salt shaker



' MW: 25, 1929. E..G.COBELLI 1,718,684

SALT SHAKER Filed June 18*, 1928 Inventor .27. c caaezza' A fizwwza.

Attorney Patented June 25, 1929.

' UNITED STATES EDWIN G. COBELLI, OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

SALT SHAKER.

Application filed June 18, 1928. Serial No. 286,296.

The present invention relates to an improved shaker for salt, pepper orother condiments, or in fact for powdered or finely divided materialwhich it may be desired to take out of the box or other receptacle; and

the invention consists in certain novel features of construction whichwill be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the shaker embodying thefeatures of my invention,

' and Figure 2 is a vertical section thercthrough. Referring to thedrawin in detail it will be seen that the box or bofy 5 is in the preferred embodiment of a frusto-conical formation merging at its uppersmaller end into a cylindrical externally threaded neck 6 to receive theinternally threaded flange 7 of the concavo-convex cap 8.

The lower or larger end of the frusto- .conical body 5 merges into aninverted fruso-conical flange 9 the bottom of which merges into a ringbottom plate 10. The inner edge of the ring bottom plate 10 merges intoa substantially frusto-conical discharge funnel directed up into thebody 5.

This funnel is curved longitudinally with its convex surface inwardly.This funnel merges into a concavo-convex perforated top 12.

By moving the shaker up and down in substantial vertical direction itwill be seen that the contents thereof will be directed r upwardly andsuspended in the upper portion' of the structure so as to gravitate downthrough the apcrtured cap 12.

The shaker may be made of metal, glass or other suitable material. Thepresent embodimcnt of the invention has been disclosed 40 inconsiderable detail merely for the purposes ofexemplification since inactual practice it will attain the features of advantage enumerated asdesirable in the statement of the invention andthe above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and inthe combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafterclaimed or sacri- 5o ficing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A shaker ofthe class described comprising a frusto-conical body merging at its upper end into a cylindrical neck, a cylindrical flange dctachably engagedon the neck and havlng a concavo-convex cap thereon, the bottom edge ofthe body merging into a downwardly directed inverted frusto-conicalflange merging in turn to a horizontally inwardly directed ring platebottom which merges in turn into an upwardly and inwardly directedfrusto-conieal funnel terminating into a concavo-convex erforatedextremity, the funnel bein ongitudinally curved to present an inwardlydisposed concave face.

In testimony whereof I afiix m signature.

EDWIN G. BELLI.

